{"id":1927,"date":"2012-01-27T03:09:01","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T03:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aimint.org\/au\/2012\/01\/27\/close-shave-raises-more-than-10000-for-african-hospital\/"},"modified":"2020-11-22T22:46:28","modified_gmt":"2020-11-22T22:46:28","slug":"close-shave-raises-more-than-10000-for-african-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aimint.org\/ap\/2012\/01\/27\/close-shave-raises-more-than-10000-for-african-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Close shave raises more than $10,000 for African hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium; line-height: 1.3em;\">Medical student Alice shaved her hip-length locks in October to raise more than $10,000 for the Africa Inland Church Kapsowar hospital in Kenya. Alice is one of eight medical students from Australia who did medical training electives in African hospitals during the Australian universities\u2019 summer break.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The medical electives were done through AIM Australia\u2019s short-term program. Students at Kapsowar experienced a combination of paediatrics, adult medicine, obstetrics and gynaecology and surgery. Alice is from Sydney and is entering her fourth year of medicine at\u00a0Campbelltown\u2019s University of Western Sydney campus. Alice\u2019s love of Africa developed in her\u00a0childhood. \u201cI became a Christian when I was 12. My class teacher explained to me how Jesus died to take away my sins. I was amazed and immediately accepted this generous gift of salvation!\u00a0<em>Alice has a long-term goal of being a medical missionary in Africa.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><em> <\/em>\u201cWhen I was 15, I had a series of dreams and visions about African children gathering around me and God placed in me a heart for Africa. At that time I also began reading the Jungle Doctor series by Paul White, a medical missionary in Tanganyika (now Tanzania). I was inspired to study medicine which I hoped to use as a platform for sharing the good news of Jesus Christ, the ultimate Physician, who has come to heal the most debilitating disease of all humanity \u2014 sin.\u201d Information on medical electives in Africa can be obtained from AIM Australia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">January 2012<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medical student Alice shaved her hip-length locks in October to raise more than $10,000 for the Africa Inland Church Kapsowar hospital in Kenya. 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